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Art | Museums in Rome: The MACRO experience

If you are in Rome or you are planning to come here in the next months, you must drop by the MACRO – Contemporary Art Museum in via Nizza, to discover its collection and its current exhibitions. The MACRO Museum has two headquarters: one in Via Nizza and the new one in the Testaccio district. Here we are going to have a peek into the MACRO in Via Nizza.

The building raises up in the city center, in the Porta Pia’s district just next to the big park of Villa Borghese. It is an example of industrial archaeology: the old Birra Peroni factory (well-known brewery Italian company) has been restored by changing its function into a museum. The official opening took place in 2002. New changes has been realized in 2004 by the french architect Odile Decq.

The following video is a capture of same frames from the work Psychedelic Lock by the artist Daniele Puppi: a video work mixing Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho (1960) and the Gus Van Sant‘s remake of the film (1998).

Is it your first visit at the MACRO? You must stop by the bathroom before leaving. It’s a Matrix-style non-place: you will forget the reason of your visit and won’t be able to find the exit door. Enjoy the changing lights! (Should we thank Odile Decq for this experience?)

Segni, Alfabeti, Scritture

(26.05 – 02.10 2016)

The mix between art and writing is exhibited through a selection of works from the collection of the Museum, giving relevance to those pieces where letters become image creating Art thanks to the contribution of the Artist.

APPUNTI DI UNA GENERAZIONE #3

Matteo Basilé‘s artworks probably deserve high cogitantions I won’t do about real, unreal, oniric, imaginary, illusory, holy vs profane, blasphemous, pagan and so on. If you will have a look inside this exhibition, I’m sure someone will find you astonished in front of these huge artworks telling stories about nynphs and ancient heroes diving into the marbles of Carrara. You will try to understand which is the trick, which is the exact merging point between art and computer art. You’ll get out without an answer, but shocked by the view of something – really – different. It worth the visit!

The exhibition includes the artworks of Giacchino Pontrelli, as much huge and unique as those by Basilé, they ask for the interpretation of the viewer. You can use them to administrate the Rorschach test to your companion and analyze his/her personality. (I see the nature painted as seen through an infrared camera, let’s psychoanalyze me!)

Triumphs and Laments: a project for Rome

William Kentridge

(17.04 – 02.10 2016)

500 meteres-long frieze on the wall alongside of the Tevere river in Rome. No paint for this big graffiti, just a work of erasure of the biological patina over the travertine wall who brought to life these big artworks for 10 metres in hight. This is the project by William Kentridge who wanted to bring to light the history of the Eternal City from its eternal river. William Kentridge is from Johannesburg, South Africa, he’s known for his animated films, drawings and prints. The exhibition at the MACRO Museum shows off the preparatory drawings for this big artwork.